Thursday, November 19, 2020

low cost video capture and streaming

How times have changed since the days of the $1000 Matrox RT2000 which we purchased in 1999-2001. This HDMI frame-grabber costs only $35. But it's just a simple HDMI to USB conversion, raw frames with no encoding. So the PC needs to be capable enough to handle the high-bitrate stream and do encoding on the fly. Since these are generally used by gamers for streaming, beefy machines are not an issue. And OBS Studio is the software of choice. Then, OBS Studio has "BrowserSource" which can be used to capture - no hardware required, except OBS Studio's own hardware requirements

All these could be possibilities if Google goes ahead with its plan to remove access to Google Meet recording ability for Education customers.

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